About me
Tyla's work challenges our preconceived ideas about fantasy and reality, the imagined and the actual. To do this, she works mainly with photography and create abstracted landscapes. She explores different perspectives on the natural world. By applying abstraction, she investigates our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to challenge the realms of our imagination.
Tyla's photographs establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. The works focus on questions that determine our relationship with nature. By exploring the concept of landscape. She creates moments of changing the subject’s original form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted, and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted.
Tyla's photographs establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. The works focus on questions that determine our relationship with nature. By exploring the concept of landscape. She creates moments of changing the subject’s original form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted, and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted.
Education
2012 - 2016 BA Studio Art concentration in Photography and minor in Arts Administration, Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio
2017 - 2018 M. Litt in Fine Art Practice (Photography and the Moving Image), Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2012 - 2016 BA Studio Art concentration in Photography and minor in Arts Administration, Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio
2017 - 2018 M. Litt in Fine Art Practice (Photography and the Moving Image), Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Exhibitions
2014:
*Solo Show
2014:
- Photography and Integrated Digital Media Show, Otterbein University Student Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
- Photography and Integrated Digital Media Show, Otterbein University Student Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
- Otterbein University Annual Juried Student Show: Juried by Brandon Briggs, The Miller Gallery, Westerville Ohio
- Otterbein University Annual Juried Student Show: Juried by Larry W. Collins, The Miller Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
- Valediction: A Senior Exhibition, The Miller Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
- Photography and Integrated Digital Media Show, Otterbein University Student Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
- Cartographies: Reconstructing Human Displacement, Fisher Gallery, Westerville, Ohio (Collaboration with Juan Si Gonzalez)
- Fragmented Memory (Residency Exhibition with Jennifer Hall Overholser), The Miller Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
- Fear of White Walls: WIP by M.Litt Photography and Moving Image, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland
*Solo Show
Awards/Accomplishments
2016:
2016:
- Ohio Art League (OAL) 2016 Membership Award, Lake Erie #4
- Aegis Cover Art Competition, Lake Erie #2
Residencies/Internships
2015
2015
- Photography Intern for the City of Westerville, Ohio
- Otterbein Artist in Residence, Westerville, Ohio
Collections
- Otterbein University Permanent Art Collection, Westerville, Ohio, Lake Erie #2
